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Ghif/Jif is the new Po-TAY-to/Po-TAH-to.
Natalie Haynes on being a Booker Prize judge, halfway through submissions. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
The Hamptons, smh. RT @moorehn: New York Times reporters, man. They know how to get the plum beats. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
Letters from nonagenarian authors = best.
Hotels FTW, sigh @harikunzru: Airbnb is now (well, always has been but now they're enforcing it) illegal in New York bit.ly/118WIr6
Somebody really needs to write a long magazine piece about the Granta editorial shenanigans.
More Sigrid RT @lorraineadams The editorships of @GrantaMag & @GrantaBooks & @PortobelloBooks will be combined into 1 uber editor of all 3.
Um...RT @palafo Big revision in tornado death estimate: 24, not 91, confirmed. Officials cite confusion. nytimes.com/2013/05/22/us/…
Somehow they are less "ridiculous"? RT @am640: Mayor Ford will make a statement regarding drug allegations at 11:00am. (via @boyreporter)
Belief Culture is a powerful thing. RT @DavidGrann Why rational people buy into conspiracy theories nyti.ms/YW7q7P
! RT @drmabuse Galaxy Tab 3's price accidentally revealed to be $199. Amazon/B&N won't be able to compete with this. is.gd/4PKvAr
Devastating. RT @palafo: Grief in Oklahoma. Death toll from tornado reaches 91, including 20 children. nyti.ms/117ybZe
Very mixed feelings. RT @mattbucher: FORTHCOMING: David Foster Wallace's Uncollected Fiction, December 2013 hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-f…
First bubble tea of the season. pic.twitter.com/gpF60Hat6C
Servicey! And also, helpful. RT @PublishersLunch A cool preview: Our one-stop master #BEA13 schedule is up. publun.ch/BEA2013Sched
"Some compared Yahoo to Nickelback, the most derided rock band of all time." nyti.ms/11RGqdB
Yup. Sigh. RT @RebeccaSchinsky Aaaaaand countdown to the flurry of What Publishers Can Learn from the Yahoo-Tumblr Buyout thinkpieces.
The future of Tumblr could be summed up by a nonexistent lunch between Marissa Meyer and @realjohngreen. Now, if it were to happen...
Jane Mayer: still the very best, covering PBS's attempts to placate David Koch. nyr.kr/12OXb4I (via @brianstelter)
Can you imagine if Penguin and Random House had announced their merger like Yahoo and Tumblr cc: @paulbogaards
Can't wait for the Yahoo/Tumblr moment in Mike Judge's upcoming Silicon Valley show for HBO.
Aaaaaaand "Keep Calm and Carry On" jumps the shark several times over, and kills the shark in the process. bit.ly/10Ino67
"promises not to screw it up" = "hey, those layoffs and restructures were necessary and totally not screwing it up!"
Marissa Mayer: "no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I've ever met." bit.ly/10IkxKr
Wordpress FTW? RT @laurahazardowen It's official: Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion, conf. call at 9 AM ET gigaom.com/2013/05/20/yah…
Huh RT @drmabuse: Prisoners reading GATSBY particularly enjoyed Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. is.gd/EuJenm
First people get mad at Stephen King for publishing a Kindle Single. Now they're mad because JOYLAND is print-only. online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
"The Lonely Hours", 1963 dramatization of Celia Fremlin's THE HOURS BEFORE DAWN on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. bit.ly/13EFA1B
Good lord, is there a day Charlie Rose ISN'T working now? nytimes.com/2013/05/20/bus… (via @brianstelter)
Hooray for STONER. RT @nprbooks: Decade Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due n.pr/19RAkYu
Daniel Dennett's 7 Rules of Thinking applies so well to writing criticism. m.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may… (via @jomc)
Quite literally screamed. RT @drmabuse: "The Name of the Doctor" -- holy shit!
"No reason was given for the cancellation." Riiiiiiiiiight. cp24.com/news/ford-brot… (via @adambarken)
.@brianjayjones thank you! That was a fun panel and great crowd. @Janet_Reid @filmbiographer @JenzyRichards
That is just *ridiculous*. RT @edmundlee: Yahoo to consider ALL CASH $1.1 billion for @davidkarp!!! allthingsd.com/20130517/yahoo…
Great story. RT @koxinga21 Wildest story I have reported in awhile "Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia" salon.com/2013/05/17/rev…
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That was fast. RT @CNBC: Yahoo to hold a product-related news event in New York City on Monday; CEO Marissa Mayer to speak at event. $YHOO
Replaces "Up Front" in NYTBR. MT @PamelaPaulNYT Introducing Open Book, our new weekly column by @johnwilliamsnyt: nyti.ms/14xA8g3
I stand corrected; apparently a suspect in Smith's murder turned himself in back in April. bit.ly/16Ep1G6
The Anthony Smith shooting is still unsolved, right? Maybe it's a good idea to remember that, and that the crack tape is valuable to lots?
Today at the Domestic Suspense site: the off-kilter narratives of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. bit.ly/16EnS1a
So depressing. RT @romenesko Gawker has a post on "bloodbath day" at the Village Voice. Musto and others are out. bit.ly/11KbMCQ
To be clear, I was slowclapping for speed/chutzpah, not content.
Slowclap RT @itsmarkmedley I gotta hand it to the Taiwanese animators. They pulled this together in, what, 12 hours? youtube.com/watch?v=060r7T…
It's happening a lot slower than fiction and nonfiction, but poetry is making its way to digital in a bigger way now. bit.ly/18Q4xcM
Notable FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler has died. bit.ly/18Q24z8 (via @see_venice)
But yes, S&S hiring Goldstein means that Tracey Guest is leaving the company after more than 15 years. Her last day is May 31.
Nice pickup for S&S as Cary Goldstein joins the imprint as vp, executive director of publicity and senior editor on June 3.